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Los Angeles County, CA
Los Angeles County, CA: (Jul-04-07) The family of Chadwick Shane Cochran filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Los Angeles County after the mentally ill inmate was beaten to death after deputies left him unsupervised with a group of gang members. The suit alleged that the attack took place in the downtown Men's Central Jail in a room containing about 30 inmates. Deputies who could have been watching the inmates were instead searching cells in another part of the jail, looking for weapons and other contraband. Cochran died on November 16, 2005, after two gang members took turns jumping off a steel bench and stomping on the dying man's head as other inmates watched.
The department was charged with leaving the inmates alone in a holding room for at least 20 minutes and for failing to give Cochran a new identification card when they transferred him out of the mental health unit. Other inmates mistakenly thought that Cochran's red mental health identification card meant that he was a police informant. In a settlement reached, Los Angeles County officials have tentatively agreed to pay $1 million to resolve the lawsuit. [LOS ANGELES TIMES: KILLED INMATE]
Published on Jul-9-07
The department was charged with leaving the inmates alone in a holding room for at least 20 minutes and for failing to give Cochran a new identification card when they transferred him out of the mental health unit. Other inmates mistakenly thought that Cochran's red mental health identification card meant that he was a police informant. In a settlement reached, Los Angeles County officials have tentatively agreed to pay $1 million to resolve the lawsuit. [
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